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Recent Posts
- On my new favorite tumblr: “Awesome People Reading.”
- On the highs and lows of glittery crafts.
- Penpals, update your contact info!
- Two magnificent paragraphs on Katy Perry’s boobs.
- On picking your battles.
- On amazing women and sure-to-be-amazing books.
- On heavy sentences.
- Things are as they should be.
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- Go west, young woman!
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Category Archives: Ache
On heavy sentences.
“Learning to write sound, interesting, sometimes elegant prose is the work of a lifetime.” –Joseph Epstein in The New Criterion, read more here
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I’m not ready…
I’m not ready to be friends with you yet, my dear ex-boyfriend. I really want to be friends with you again, just for a moment, so that we can talk about the corgis in The King’s Speech. Did you freak out when you … Continue reading
Posted in Ache, Books, Dogs, Love, Movies, Music, Open letter, Questions, Waiting
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Dear future boyfriend,
I only have a few bowls right now. I’m just building my own kitchen, my first sets of dishes, and I found a pack of bowls at Target. I’m not so girly that everything I own MUST be pink, but … Continue reading
Posted in Ache, Dating, Desire, Open letter
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On living alone.
I just talked–out loud!–to my poinsettia. I almost killed it this week, so it’s the least I could do… I’m ready to get a dog though. It’d be nice to have something more responsive around my apartment.
Posted in Ache, Dogs
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Erica on being human and being adequate.
“Or you finally understand that they were just human. That everything you expected them–demanded them–to be wasn’t their job. You didn’t leave them because they were inadequate, as you made sure they knew at the time. Maybe you left them … Continue reading
Posted in Ache, Life lessons, Movies, Quotations, Striving, Truth
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Glory on being ‘this kind of girl.’
“I am the kind of girl that will tell you how beautiful I think your girlfriend is, and that I am sure she is super nice and fun… I will tell you that, even if you have broke my heart … Continue reading
Posted in Ache, Beauty, Love, Quotations, Recognition
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On missing someone.
“I was thinking about how when someone is mad at you you can miss them like they’ve gone to another country. Even though they’re right there, and you know it’s only a matter of waiting until you’re talking like you … Continue reading
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